"Geography Is Awesome!"

 
That's what it said on front of the shirt that I won at yesterdays Geography trip to the INCO Innovation Center at Memorial University. So it was vaguely interesting but we were pretty much going over how to use Google Earth and how to use some poorly created mapping program, where the data is from 1996 and every time you made a movement accross this 'colourful' map, it would refresh. The program is called 'ArcExplorer - Java Edition for Education'.

I think what they were trying to get onto us about was that it was something called 'GIS day' (Geographical Information System) and they took some people from each geography class and took us to the INCO Innovation Center to learn about these GIS programs, including ArcExplorer and Google Earth. There was a few guys there teaching us, and one of them asked some of us to go outside with him to check out how GPS works, so the only thing that was interesting was I found out that there 32 satellites in the sky, but there's 24 working at any given time.

Laters

Rossie & Jossie

PS. The question I had to answer was, "what is a GPS used for?" so don't start thinking I said some techy answer (which I thought I would), about it calculating your latitude and longitude using numerous satellites, but I simply said "it tells you where you are", and got the shirt that I later gave to a friend as it didn't fit me :)

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